FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. 
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Fig. 396. Purple Finch. 
County Mr. Grinnell finds it a common winter visitant of the mesas and 
lowlands, haunting thickets and brushy places in small companies. 
518. Carpodacus cassini Baird. Cassin Purple Finch. 
Adult male. — Top of head with squarish patch of bright crimson; rump 
dull rose pink ; back and scapulars dull pinkish brown, sharply streaked 
with dark brown ; under parts pale pink fading to unstreaked white on 
belly; lower tail coverts usually conspicuously streaked with dusky; wing 
feathers edged with reddish; tail much shorter than wing, deeply emar- 
ginate. Adult female : whole body sharply streaked with dusky ; ground 
color of upper parts olive gray ; of under parts white. Young : similar to 
female, but streaks of lower parts narrower and wing edgings more ochra- 
ceous. Male: length (skins) 5.39-6.29, wing 3.52-3.80, tail 2.34-2.71, bill 
.47-51. Female: length (skins) 5.55-6.05, wing 3.42-3.60, bill .49-.50. 
